Nice workload. I usually go assembly line style like this for my builds. It can lead to a very dry experience while getting it done, since it means you can't actually build anything until the late stages.

I've adopted the strategy of always printing anchorless tiles so that I can at least get a board put together, then I'll add anchors to them as time permits. It's not as sturdy, but if I'm doing a small build, I don't mind just resting the posts right on the tiles without anchors.

I used to have a sandwich baggie filled with anchors from different sets (it helps that I have a robocutter...) that I'd keep at work so if I had a couple seconds free, I'd edge one or two. Once they were all done, I'd switch to gluing them together. These days, I spend more time in GIMP than on paper, so I haven't had the thrill of mass-assembly recently. Thank you, T-G for letting me experience it again through your (pun intended) posts!

1) don't cut the smaller ones into the one tabs and you have a larger anchor. I generally don't cut them into the single tab unless i need to. But then I do a lot of "larger" boards ie it won't be a single 6x6 square of foamboard but 18x818 or 18x6 is my typical size. So i use far fewer of the single tabs.

2) multilpe singles make a large anchor. Just like above if you don't cut them they make a larger one, if you have left over singles, just use them side by side to make a larger one...

3) Run with out anchors....It may sound blasphemous but er i run a number of builds with out having posts anchored, some times large sections are not anchored, if you anchor in strategic places your builds still have good cohesion, but you don't need to anchor everything....

But yeah posts are annoying I ran out 1/4 through my last build so over the past few weeks i have just been making posts and should have enough now...

I do tend to make posts like that, extras all the way around. But the anchors seem to be no problem for me. Don't they print right on the page with the bases? I don't know now, but it has never been a problem for me.

I do tend to make posts like that, extras all the way around. But the anchors seem to be no problem for me. Don't they print right on the page with the bases? I don't know now, but it has never been a problem for me.

Only for the 3" tiles. For the 6"s you need to print them out separately.

I wish I knew someone nearby that had a robocutter. I'd have them chop me up a half a million anchors. I hate cutting those...

The anchors aren't so bad, for me it's the posts. Getting all those little fiddly cuts for the slots is terrible. Mainly the tiny bit at the end so it comes off cleanly without leaving any paper behind.

I use scissors for the anchors. Can't remember who suggested this (Matt?) but I find it's a LOT easier and quicker than a craft knife.

Posts I try to do a page at a time - do all the scoring 1st, then the vertical cuts, then the horizontal ones to cut it out. Then edge, then glue them all, then re-score if necessary, re edge, then finish the gluing.

I use scissors for the anchors. Can't remember who suggested this (Matt?) but I find it's a LOT easier and quicker than a craft knife.

Posts I try to do a page at a time - do all the scoring 1st, then the vertical cuts, then the horizontal ones to cut it out. Then edge, then glue them all, then re-score if necessary, re edge, then finish the gluing.

And yes, if that sounds laborious, it it!

But when you finish all of that you find yourself with 4 or 8 posts. It is perhaps the most tedious part of the job, but it does go fairly fast if you keep everything in line and just move through it.

And yes, I use a craft scissors for the tabs. It has more control at the edge and goes real fast, except I like to leave that little part at the crotch of the double tab for last where I will use this one special X-acto knife that has the very tip broken off. That tip can be used more as a punch as it is just the right width to cut the chad with one thrust of the knife.

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